uMOVE – a new core facility!

uMOVE – a biobehavioural health care centre for hUman MOVEment

The uMOVE core facility has received funding from the Strategic Research Area in Health Sciences (SFO-V) to build a modern laboratory environment for research within the health care research area.

The primary goal of the uMOVE core facility is to provide a state of the art platform for investigation of human movement and behavior for researchers within care sciences mainly via multi-disciplinary approaches.

uMOVE will provide new knowledge and develop evaluation methods of the dynamical aspects of movement in interplay with psychological aspects − taking into account the impact of cognitive and emotional factors on movement such as the impact of pain, depression or cognitive processes (and vice versa).

uMOVE is a collaboration between several departments and activities at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital.

Erika Franzén, Associate professor and RPT at the Division of Physiotherapy at the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society is the Scientific Director.